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Test Pit 13 - 44 High Street Cottenham

EMS

EMW

SHW

GRIM

GRE

SS

ES

VIC

TP

Context

No

Wt

No

Wt

No

Wt

No

Wt

No

Wt

No

Wt

No

Wt

No

Wt

Date

13

1

3

21

1

9

1

6

1200-1750

13

2

3

8

1

1

5

13

1550-1900

13

3

3

18

1

1

1550-1900

13

4

2

22

1800-1900

13

5

5

96

1550-1700

13

6

1

10

1

13

3

39

600-1700

This test-pit produced a sherd of decorated 6th century Anglo-Saxon pottery, which is a very rare find. It is possibly a fragment of a cremation urn, although decorated pottery was also used for domestic purposes. The rest of the assemblage indicates that people were using the site in the 12th and 13th centuries, but also that it was then abandoned until the 16th century, and has been used ever since. All the medieval pottery is mixed in with later material and it appears that the site was heavily dug over in the 16th or 17th century.